Roz Warren (www.Rosalindwarren.com) writes for the Funny Times, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Christian Science Monitor, the Jewish Forward, Reader’s Digest and the Huffington Post. And she’s been on both the Today Show and Morning Edition. Roz is the author of OUR BODIES, OUR SHELVES: A COLLECTION OF LIBRARY HUMOR, which collects her most popular essays about library work.

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Mickey

I’d be in the recycle bin if the store put books there or maybe in the dumpster or maybe out front in the ‘free’ pile. If I had a dust jacket, it’d be torn, dirty, coffee stained, is that pumpkin cake or cream cheese frosting?, or maybe taped with packing tape. Ha! Thanks, Roz. Oh, YEA! Our public library has TWO copies of your book on its shelves! Yea!

Kelly

Mickey

I should know better than to click on something unknown. I wrote a long comment and it got erased. Never mind. I’d be a cookbook or an anthology of mystery writers from the Golden Age to present. So many choices. Love you, love your writing, Roz.

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Mickey

That was wonderful! I happen to be reading a stack of books by Nicolas Bisbanes who has written and published seriously heavy tomes about books, book collecting, book collectors, and not in the least important, paper. All of the comments listed in the article are spot on about books and book collecting, book buying. I love the one about the water logged box filled with baby spiders (?!). Spiders in water? The Dangerous Adults Only instantly brought to mind, eww, Borat. There are 14 copies of that (you fill in the blank word) book in our public library here in Tucson and my personal feeling is they should all be in the land fill or, okay, at the porn adult book store on Miracle Mile. Awful, creepy book. When I asked to have it removed, the response was that it got good reviews on Amazon. Right. Did you read those reviews?! They were tongue in cheek! I digress. What book would I be? A cookbook? An anthology of my favorite mystery writers? So many choices. Thank you, Roz. Love you, love your writing.